The wait is over, after a couple of quick releases, Norwegian browser maker has revealed the Beta version of Opera 12 for both x86 and x86-64 systems.

In addition to various improvements, Opera 12 brings some of the most requested features, including out of process plugins, hardware acceleration (disabled by default) and WebGL (also disabled by default).
Unlike the recently released Firefox 12, this build packs a ton of changes.

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Comments (16)

Although it is Beta it is still Buggy as Hell. Crashes like crazy. Font rendering is awful. Text on some sites is misplaced. Freezes now and then. Doesn’t play videos in RSS… And so on… And so on…
It is still in a condition of a Pre-Alpha.

No, not expecting any polishing, actually.
Initially I was hoping that things will look up for Opera, but since they refuse (to this day!) to implement Auto Tab-Stacking and Opera Reader, and actually give the cold shoulder to all the handy suggestions from users, I give Opera up and get back to Firefox.

There is No Chance they will implement the handy features requested by a lot of users in this release, since they don’t add new features on the Beta stage.
So, it’s rather you who are stupidly immature.

Actually, you haven’t forgotten to enable websockets as you can only achieve that 395 score with them enabled. And then there’s the question of why would you even want to enable them seeing as the current implementation of them in Opera is outdated and obsolete.

It is great to see this long-expected version finally released. It is incredible how many upgrades have happened since 11.6. I’m looking forward to the final release, which I am expecting to be more stable. Sure, it is still somewhat buggy, but they’ve come a long way since they first introduced HWA.

Between now and the final release, some major new features I want to see are CSS3 flexbox, 3D transforms, and reflections. I also would like to see some major work done on the extensions API so we developers have can produce more powerful extensions. And, of course, some final touches to improve the stability. :)